It's quite nice. Almost like the perfect tea to have in Spring. Flavor, but not too heavy. I prefer brewing this at a cooler temperature than the suggested hotter one Den has on the packaging. I felt that while the hotter temp gave me more aroma, I felt it made the taste really aggressive to the point where I couldn't really enjoy it.

In my experience drinking tea brewed by Den, I sense he likes his sencha BOLD.

Maiko Yamashita Gyokuro Yashiki no cha. A great gyokuro, though not sure it deserves its price. I actually think I liked some of the lower levels a bit more. Still doesn't change the fact that the Yamashita Gyokuro line is A++++++ In my opinion.

Maeda-en matcha-iri genmaicha. This was the last of the grocery store Japanese tea that I picked up a couple of weeks ago, which has been sitting in my cupboard ever since. It's OK. I like the rice portion, but the tea flavors are too grassy for me and don't combine well with the roasty flavor of the rice.

I grew up drinking cheap genmaicha, which I love, and this is my first try with loose-leaf, somewhat less cheap genmaicha. So far I prefer the Yamamotoyama teabags I'm used to.

Currently having some Sencha Benifuki for my allergies while I wait on the shincha and other new green teas. It seems to help if I take it regularly, but heaven help me if I skip a day of drinking it (sneezing galore!). Not the best sencha I've had, a little on the astringent side, but it seems to serve it's purpose.

Also drinking cold sencha--putting the glass brew mugs to work in the fridge today. Just right for a hot afternoon. A few more brewings and I'll have finished off this batch of inexpensive sencha, bought from a chinese tea shop. It's not great stuff for brewing 'straight up', but just fine for this use.

Today though, I opened up Bird Pick’s Taiwan High Mountain Oolong Tea. I don’t know much about oolongs but really enjoyed this one, it is a somewhat floral very aromatic tea. Later, I enjoyed it as ice tea since it was warm here, delicious that way too.